500 Visits & Not One Gosh Dam Click!

It's hard to answer your question, without having a look at what your website looks like.

It seems to me it is not properly optimized for conversion. Ad placement, right products/offers....etc. and such. While your other site is properly optimized.

Do you have analytics or some other tracking software installed on the site? If not you need to do so.

That many visits and that few sales makes me think that the traffic is not matching the content of the site or the ads themselves are not matching the content of the site.

You need to look at where your visitors are coming from and what they are doing once they reach your site. That info will help a lot in trying to figure out the problem.

Richard

You need to have the ability for visitors to become subscribers and then customers. You may need an optin space on your website to collect email addresses

Traffic itself means nothing.

You need targeted traffic.
You need a powerful call to action.
You need a lead capture system.

This is the key right here. If your site has good focus and a fairly narrow niche, the people who take the time to find it will be people who really, really want what you have. Making sales is easy then and you don't need boatloads of traffic.

Show us your site if you want some good help. Its not making any money anyway so nobody is going to copy it.

i would get rid of the ads and soft sell. and exit pop to your affiliate link

This is part of the answer, but targeting, sometimes, is not enough....is your market hungry for or actively seeking the solution you're offering?...are they seeking immediate benefit?

Yeah, you're getting alot of traffic, but apparently, the people visiting your site aren't being inspired to take action..it could be the market you've chosen (even if it's targeted) or your content

i'm speaking from experience..for example..right now i have 5 blogs for adsense (actually 6, but 1 doesn't get any clicks because i was a blog newbie when i did it and I didn't know then.... what i know now about good templates, ad placement, etc.)

they are ...
Foods Lower Blood pressure, Right?
Sinus Remedy
Get Rid Yeast Infection, Home Remedies for Yeast Infections
Dual Colon Cleanse, Dual Action Cleanser Colon, Buy, Order, Best
Women Hair Restoration, Discount Hair Replacement, Buy, Order

They are all targeted, however the 1st 3 are my money makers, by far, with the 1st, now being the leader....i have not made 1 affiliate sale, but the adsense brings $20-30 per month.

the sites have been up a little over a year..and i stay on the 1st page for them all....but with the 1st 2, ive been on the dance floor with google again for the past month..

anyway, the 1st 3 that make me the most money are not only targeted, but they also solve immediate problems..the people coming to those 3 are looking to take action..

to "lower" their blood pressure or "get rid of" their yeast infection or "remedy" their sinus headache

If you are getting the traffic and no sales, maybe selling ad space on your site can be a nice income stream....

Just my 2 cents...I hope this helps

eric

It depends on where your traffic is coming from. Targetted traffic is much effective.

For correct suggestion give us the link of your website.

2nd thing is make your website targeted. Target on one or two topics at once when you get success in those then enhance it more.

From your 1st post I think you make it like bulk data site which have a lot of different but not specific collection.

whats your source/way of bringing traffic?

Hi ellers,

Its all a numbers game. More Articles, Directory submissions, keywords, the content of your site. More traffic and more sales. If your website is offering solutions to customers needs. Customers will buy.
We are all in it together. " Success is a journey not a destination"
Continue to help others and they will in turn help you.

All the best to your success

Let me know more about your website . Just pm me the info and i'll help you out

If I were you this is what i would do:
- Identify a few successful authority sites that are doing what I am trying to do
- Identify what monetization methods they are using
- Pick ONE of the monetization method and implement it on my site following their model
- Start testing in one week intervals while modifying one variable at a time
- Focus solely on that monetization method until I get to a predetermined benchmark
- Add a second monetization method and repeat the process

The monetization method affect the the way you write your content, so it's usually important to determine that before writing. but since you already have the content, the next best thing is to determine what the people visiting your site want to do next after reading your content. Try to answer this question to choose the first one you will focus on.

Also, how's your bounce rate? I believe if your bounce rate is low enough it means people are spending too much time on your site enjoying your so helpful content they don't need anything else. If you want them to do buy something, you can't answer all their questions on your site.

Check the most popular article on your site and rewrite it slightly (depending on the mnonetization method you have selected). you'll just need to rewrite the beginning and the end just to imply that they'll need to take another action to really get the solution and track the CTR after the change. Of course you will be doing only one thing at a time for a few days so that you can attribute the changes, if any, to that particular action.

now, I realize doing all this may seem daunting, and sometimes, depending on how much mistakes you made on the site, it might too hard to correct the course. You will need to decide if it worth it AT THIS TIME.

What i am trying to say is that you have learned a lot on this failing site. maybe you should let it go for a while and focus on what is making you money and make that earn you more money. You can then come back to that site once you have the level of income you need.

I say that because you already have a site making you money and your effort will be best spent trying to reproduce that success. You know how to drive traffic and you know how to build a targeted site. You also need to realize that an authority site is just a bunch of niche sites on one domain. Reproduce the success of that small site whether by building more small ones or by building one site and microniches as categories.

I hope you can find something useful in this long post.

Sandrine

Get an opt-in list going ASAP. Give something of value as bait.

Secondly, in terms of how much dosh you make per visitor, if you have a product or can create something really in demand in your niche, why not offer it for free behind a survey gateway with either CPALead (their splash ads remove the survey aspect and tend to attract more clicks than Adsense) or Sharecash (which now has a non-survey viral option)? I find that these pay me FAR more than adsense these days.